Device for holding teeth in farming implements.



M. K. NOAKER. I DBVIGE FOR HOLDING TEETH IN FARMING IMPLHMENTS.

Patented Aug. 1, 1911.

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APPLIUATION FILED DEG. 5, 1910. 1 999,516. Patented Aug'. 1,1911.

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UNTTE S A 3 MILTON K. NOAKER, OF AKRON, OI-IIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE AKRONGULTIVATOR COMPANY, OF AKRON, OHIO, A CORPORATION.

DEVICE FOR HOLDING TEETH IN FARMING IMPLEMENTS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 1, 1911.

Application filed December 5, 1910. Serial No. 595,556.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MILTON K. NOAKER, a citizen of the United States,residing at Akron, in the county of Summit and State of Ohio, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Devices for HoldingTeeth in Farming Implements, of which the following is a specification.

This invention consists in an improvement in devices for holdingstandards for cultivator teeth, shovels or the like.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a sectional plan view of oneform of my improved holder and a portion of a bar or beam with which itis connected and a cross section of a standard or tooth shank engagedtherein, and Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional elevation of the partsarranged as shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the body ofthe holder shown in Figs. 1 and 2, and Fig. 4 is a perspective view of asocalled follower for locking the standard, also shown in Figs. 1 and 3.Figs. 5 to 9 inclusive show a modification of the invention. Thus, Fig.5 is a plan View of the modified holder shown on a beam, and Fig. 6 is asectional plan thereof. Fig. 7 is a side elevation of the parts seen inFig. 5, and Fig. 8 is a vertical section thereof. Fig. 9 is aperspective view of the follower used in this form of holder.

Having reference first to the style or construction of holder seen inFigs. 1 to 4, A represents a beam of a cultivator, say of the sulky typeor style and in which the beams usually are arranged or carried at aninclination to the line of-travel and converge toward their front, and Brepresents the body of the holder. F is the so-called follower and G theclamping bar, and said parts are shown as operatively bound together bytwo bolts D, top and bottom. The said body B is the basic or principalmember of the holder and is a skeleton or open-work member, which, whenviewed, as to its distinctive features, has horizontal upper and loweror top and bottom portions or. and b laterally at its side provided withcorresponding circular holes 2 in this instance for entering the toothor shovel standard, but said holes might have any other preferred shapeaccording to the shape of the device to be engaged therein, and threeseveral vertical connecting posts or pillars 0 are disposed about saidholes and unite said top and bottom portions, as in a casting. Each ofsaid portions a and I) also has a vertically disposed flange or lug d atits inner edge at right angles to the sides thereof and projecting inopposite directions therefrom and provided with bolt holes 3. Said holesare shown as angular, as also are the shanks of the connecting orclamping bolts D which rest therein so as to prevent turning when thenuts n are tightened. The two inner parallel posts or pillars are setback from the immediate edges of the top and bottom portions 64 and Z)relatively as shown and have fiat sides so that a distinct seat 4 isprovided outside said pillars for said body upon beam A and whichconfines said body in sliding relations thereon, and clamping piece orstrip C on the other side of said beam has a shouldered recess fittingon the beam for the same purpose, so that both parts B and G are seatedoppositely on the bar and clamped thereon by bolts D. Having theforegoing construction of body B, it will be seen that a rectangularopen space is formed centrally therein between the flat parallel sidesof the upper and lower portions or and Z) and the parallel fiat sides ofside pillars a, and which open space extends across the standard holes2. The said free and otherwise loose follower F has flat sides adaptedto this space which it occupies somewhat snugly and is adapted to lockand hold the tooth standard or shank E in any desired rotary or verticaladjustment. To this end said follower is fashioned with a concave orsemi-circular inner engaging side or surface 6 for the tooth standard orshank E. The holder as thus shown and described is a complete article ofmanufacture adapted to support and carry any kind of standard and toothor tool that can be supported in this way, such, for example, as harrowteeth, colter standards and the like. It will be noticed that while bothbody B and clamp G engage over or upon the respective edges of the beamA they are apart far enough to get the clamping effect desired whenbolts D are tightened and said beam may be a single piece as shown ortwo pieces united. WVhen clamping occurs the said parts are drawn towardeach other on said beam which forces the follower F inward against thetooth and looks it. Obviously a most effective locking engagement isaccomplished by this means, while at the same time the nuts n can beloosened and the holder adjusted back and forth on the beam withoutremoving the bolts, which is a great convenience.

Now, having reference particularly to Figs. 5 to 9, it will be seenfirst that there is difference in the body B and in the holder F ascompared with Fig. 4, adapting the holder to carry either round orangular standards at will. Thus, the said body has a concave or circularseat 10 and a flat seat 12 coming at the sides of seat 10'with avertical rib 13 at one edge of seat 12 forming a shoulder for thestandard S. Other modifications of the said body consist in the angularslots 14 top and bottom for the tooth or shovel standard and which aredisposed at an inclination of approximately thirty degrees angle to theinner face of the body where it seats on beam A, and follower F iscorrespondingly deeper at one edge than the other so as to adapt it touse with said body. The vertical rib 13 is at the narrow edge of thefollower. It will be seen also that body body B and follower F arefashioned to hold standard S at a slight inclination to a perpendicularposition relatively as seen in Fig. 7 and this difference is effected inthe slots 14 and in the seat 12 on the follower, which are made toconform in this particular. The rib 13 is accordingly inclined at itsinner edge as shown. Otherwise the said follower does not differ inpurpose or operation from the follower F, and sustains the same relativeposition to body B and the beam A. If a cylindrical or rounded standardwere employed, it would occupy the concave seat 10.

l Vhat I claim is:

1. In cultivators and the like, a support ing bar and a standard, a bodymember adapted to support said standard provided with upper and lowerhorizontal plate like portions providing a seat between their inneredges for said bar and vertically disposed holes for said standard, astandard locking member within said body constructed to engage both saidstandard and said carrying bar and clamping mechanism adapted to locksaid body and said bar and said standard locking member firmly together.

2. The device described for supporting cultivator standards, the samecomprising a skeleton body having upper and lower horizontal portionsand posts connecting the same and provided with openings through saidhorizontal portions and a horizontal seat for a supporting bar, saidopenings being constructed to support a standard of angular crosssection and at an angle of inclination to the plane of said seat, and aclamping block confined within said head between said posts and havingits face at the same inclination as the said openings, where by asubstantially flat sided standard can be set and clamped in positionwith its sides at an inclination to the line of draft.

In testimony whereof I afliX my signature in the presence of twowitnesses.

MILTON K. NOAKER.

' \Vitnesses:

l/V. J. GELINK, J. B. HUBER.

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